Tuesday 13 April 2010

It was Tuesday, under the sign of Aries (see planets position on April 13, 2010). The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
In that special week of April people in US were listening to Rude Boy by Rihanna.
The Losers, directed by Sylvain White, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2010
while Dear John by Nicholas Sparks was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Las Aparicio.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader or Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

Historical Events

Famous Birthdays:

Facts:

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000.

Nuclear Security Summit:

President of the United States Barack Obama opening the biggest international meeting hosted by the US since 1945, greets leaders from nearly 50 countries. World leaders at the summit hear dire warnings of the danger of nuclear material falling into the wrong hands. (BBC News)

The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, says that his government thwarted an attempt to sell highly-enriched uranium on the black market last month. (The Guardian)

Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)

A bar of radioactive Cobalt-60 found in a New Dehli market causes life-threatening radiation sickness in one person and contingency measures from the authorities. (ampquotThe Faster Timesampquot)

Kyrgyzstan's ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev says he will resign if the interim government guarantees his family's safety. (Al Jazeera)

A huge glacier breaks off and plunges into a lake in Peru sparking a 23-metre high tsunami wave that destroyed a nearby town. The massive chunk of ice - around the size of four football pitches - tumbled into the '513 lake' in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima. (''The Peruvian Times'')

Israel tells all of its citizens visiting the Sinai Peninsula to leave immediately after Israeli intelligence warns that a terror cell may be planning to kidnap an Israeli national and bring him to Gaza. (''The Telegraph'')

A group of Lebanese politicians play a match of association football to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War. AFP

The body of Poland's First Lady, Maria Kaczyńska, is flown to Warsaw to lie in state alongside that of her husband, President Lech Kaczyński. Poland has seen an outpouring of grief since the couple and scores of other senior Polish officials died in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday. (Xinhua)

11 people are killed in Isabela City, Philippines, after 25 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group clash with security forces. (CNN)

Books

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORAn angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer ...

WHAT . . . A RIOT! Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new ...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Financial News

Stock Markets and Exchange Rates

News articles

A Bidding War for Arsenal?

One of Arsenal&#8217;s biggest shareholders decided to sell her stake in the British Premier League club on Monday, raising the possibility of a takeover bid for the north London side, according to press reports. [..]

Dow Finishes Above 11,000

The highest close since September 2008 was the latest marker in a rally that has brought Wall Street back from the brink. [..]